Iman’s mother has died less than three months after her husband David Bowie’s shocking death.

On Friday morning, the 60-year-old model broke the news via social media.

“Saddened by the death of my mom Maryan Baadi,” she wrote on Instagram. “May Allah grant her the highest jennah. I beg that you respect my family’s privacy during our time of grief #ripmaryanbaadi.”

Iman was very vocal about her parents’ activism in a 2014 interview with The Guardian. “My mother was an activist, so was my father,” she said. “They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.”

“So I remember when I was 5 how busy our house was,” she continued. “People would come in the middle of the night, meetings after meetings, and protests and all that. I grew up in the midst of all of that. And she instilled that in me. The fact that nobody can take your self-worth unless you give your consent.”